Bhavana Swaminathan

I started One Piece during COVID while writing my PhD dissertation and never stopped watching weekly. Over time, it revealed itself as something rare: a story about freedom, grief, hope, and time itself. Truly generation-defining.

hey sorry i can’t make it tonight i’m hanging out disrespectfully with women in unstable places from my wild recent past

What would happen if migrants on boats with limited resources were also seen as brave explorers gifted with curiosity and wonder for depths unknown, I wonder.

@ScientistsLift Honestly didn’t read a book in grad school - read 25 my first full year out of PhD!

Does anybody else find it hard to read actual books since going to grad school? Or is it just me? 🤔

Yeah, Instagram is bad for our mental health but what about Outlook

William Shatner on his Blue Origin flight to space: "It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." variety.com/2022/tv/news/w…

What if all those PhDs stop just defending and actually start attacking?!?

@raghavan_seetha I was just there! It’s AMAZING

you can tell someone grew up reading because they know many words and they pronounce them all wrong

*when the villain in the movie has a PhD* Viewers without a PhD: Ah, they are just saying he’s a smart villain. Makes sense. Viewers with a PhD: Ah, grad school and academia drove him to madness. Makes sense.

PhD life got me feeling like grocery shopping and doing dishes are hobbies

Some of these recent postdoc ads/postings are unreal. Basically asking for candidates who would possess the equivalent of a faculty member’s depth and breadth of expertise 💀 There is no way y’all are trying to pull this in this year of 2022 knowing how underpaid postdocs are.

Few understand the importance of having a sick ass jacket that everyone recognizes you by

1 yr anniversary of getting my PhD and the only people who call me Dr. are other consultants to be sassy 😪

“what if i flop?” “oh but my darling, what if you slay?”

I would watch 9 seasons of this.

“You have a doctorate” I whisper to myself as I hold up my hands to see which one makes an L so I can figure out left from right.

She’s a 10 but she works all day